Quarterly

Some time soon. Probably Monday, as that's the first work day of the year.
 
Fingers crossed XFCE's Thunar icon fix sneaks in q1.
 
The main repo is still SVN but its been exported to git (GitHub and Gitlab) for quite some time now.
cgit-beta is for testing
 
I'm waiting for the newest quarterly to upgrade to 12.2. pkg update shows nothing at this moment. Is it because I'm still on 12.1 or is it not available yet?
 
Ports are NEVER related to specific FreeBSD versions, they're the same for all of them.
If you are using binary packages, the version of FreeBSD you're using can make a difference concerning when exactly the packages are available. It just depends on when builds are scheduled/finished for your ABI. Difference is at max a few days.
edit: further hint: 12.1 and 12.2 use the SAME repository for binary packages (the ABI is the same, 12.x, it doesn't change between minor releases) – so the short answer to your question is: No.
 
adding to Zirias' comment search for "24.2.3.2. Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade" in:
www.freebsd.org

Chapter 26. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD

Information about how to keep a FreeBSD system up-to-date with freebsd-update or Git, how to rebuild and reinstall the entire base system, etc
www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org
I'm not sure if pkg prompts about a required forced upgrade (I haven't encountered the scenario yet, I'm new to FreeBSD)
 
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tux2bsd said:
"Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade"
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12.1 to 12.2 is not a major version upgrade. It's a minor version upgrade. Upgrading from 12.x or 11.x to (soon to be released) 13.0 would be a major version upgrade.
 
phalange said:
Ok, but it looks like there's a quarterly pkg update due any day (from what I could find Q1 pkg updates happen in January), but 12.1 is EOL on January 31. Does that mean I should wait for the Q2 quarterly to update from 12.1 to 12.2?
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No, as soon as 12.1 is EoL the repositories will get built for 12.2. Repositories are regularly (re)built due to various updates, even the quarterlies.
 
Just as a reminder: differences between 12.1 and 12.2 only concern ABI inside the kernel, so only packages containing kernel modules ("-kmod") are affected. The userspace ABI is fixed for the whole lifecycle of 12.x.

It's unfortunate that -kmod packages can cause trouble. I hope there will be a solution in the future.
 
Only certain kernel modules seem to be affected, apparently not all of them. But yes, it's rather unfortunate it happened to a few popular ones. 99.9% of all other packages are not a problem, the 12.1 packages will work just fine on 12.2.
 
I'm seeing drm-fbsd12.0-kmod: 4.16.g20200221 -> 4.16.g20201016 in my pkg upgrade now. I'm guessing this is a green light to bump my system to 12.2... is this the package (module) that's been causing the problems?
 
phalange said:
I'm seeing drm-fbsd12.0-kmod: 4.16.g20200221 -> 4.16.g20201016 in my pkg upgrade now. I'm guessing this is a green light to bump my system to 12.2... is this the package (module) that's been causing the problems?
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yes, at least I was having problems. I did remove the package and installed the port, then rebooted and everything was fine again.
 
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